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Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...








>Andrew Ivanov wrote:
>> > If it's not an overlay problem, I don't have a clue.
>>
>> Wouldnt it be the problem only when he was trying to boot to an OS that
is > located >beyong 1024th cylinder?
>> He's got 2 drives, on primary and secondary IDE's. And drive 1,
/dev/hda, > holds >Windows, and /dev/hdb, drive 2, holds Linux...
>
>
  >I do have such a configuration and for the moment I'm not able to boot
from /dev/hdb >(Linux). I tried to swap the two disks from BIOS but it
>doesn't
>work, probably because the mounted disks are /dev/hdb*. Any idea?


Did you check the jumpersettings at the disks?
You have to tell a haddisk, whether it's a slave or the primary disk.
Only primary disks can be bootable.

Henning



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